Quotes About Man

The only liberty an inferior man really cherishes is the liberty to quit work, stretch out in the sun, and scratch himself.

The average man never really thinks from end to end of his life. The mental activity of such people is only a mouthing of clichés.

The cosmos is a gigantic flywheel making 10,000 revolutions per minute. Man is a sick fly taking a dizzy ride on it.

The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants beyond everything else is safety.

If I am mad, it is mercy! May the gods pity the man who in his callousness can remain sane to the hideous end!

Only primitive man knew freedom, but a freedom imprisoned by the fear of the other and of nature.

after all, in 1957 the Soviet Union put the first ever man in space)

They say that nothing can stand against such a man, for the one gun – that marked Mutiny – deals instant death, but the other – the one marked Matelotage – deals instant love, like the very darts of Eros. And who, I ask ye, who can stand up to love?

In the ghetto of Genre, anything goes, man. When you live in the gutter it doesn't matter if you're filthy. In theory anyway.

Man is the religious animal. He is the only one that's got true religion, several of them.

He was not a man of icy nature, but he loved to gather icicles about him.

I know that I will never find my father in any other man who comes into my life, because it is a void in my life that can only be filled by him.

I'm a wanderess I'm a one night stand Don't belong to no city Don't belong to no man (Note: These lyrics were inspired by Roman Payne's quote from his novel "The Wanderess".)

He is a gay man, my dear, to say no more; and such are the companions we wish when we join a party avowedly formed for pleasure.

But she was haunted by the terrible memory of the time they had once before dragged a man out of her flat, and out of her life. Her anxiety wouldn't permit it, she had to go out and check.

An aging woman, an older man needy as a child, a little comfort, a little passion, a small aura round her beloved's head—and it never occurs to Fräulein Hetty to wonder how this weepy, feeble creature could possibly be the fighter and hero of her imaginings.

Man is the creature with a mystery in his heart that is bigger than himself.

Her (Mary's) Son first had to be the Child of the Father in order then to become man and be capable of taking up on his shoulders the burden of a guilty world.

The flight away from self to God is not a "forgetting self" in the sense that man thereby loses himself. Rather, in the experience of the Spirit there is bestowed on man the deepest possible experience of himself: for the Holy Spirit is a Spirit of revelation which illuminate the human spirit, in which it is immanent, by telling man what he is.

Instead of transcendence and renunciation, Hervey, having learned the lesson of "the existence of a Oneness of Earth and Man," instead embraced the physical world "over which a Sublime Compassion casts an illusion of beauty.

Lafayette was a splendid man...with a marvelous, self-depreciating sense of humor. He was, for example, balding noticeably when he reached an Indian outpost...and he calmed his wife's anxieties by noting that "I cannot lose what I do not have.

I'm a decent-minded man. I'm Hobson. I'm British middle class and proud of it. I stand for common sense and sincerity. You're

If only I could get down to Sidcup! I've been waiting for the weather to break. He's got my papers, this man I left them with, it's got it all down there, I could prove everything.

I know no greater bore than the man who insists on lending you a book which you do not intend to read.